The changes described in this section are being made Generally Available (GA), or are releasing to the Early Access (EA) or Preview Sandbox (PrS) environments. (Changes might also include functionality that is currently available in the PrS or EA environments and is scheduled to release to GA sometime in the future.)

Generally Available in November

No functionality is being made generally available during the month of November.

New in Early Access or Preview in November

No functionality is being introduced in Early Access or Preview during the month of November.

For a comprehensive list of recent maintenance updates made to the Workfront system, see "Maintenance Updates."

Feature / Change

Explanation

Availability

Currently in EA or Preview (Prioritized by GA Release Date)

Email Digest for Notifications about Projects I Own

Now you can limit the number of email notifications you receive from Workfront by subscribing to daily digest email notifications.

At this time, you can subscribe to receive a daily digest email notification regarding any notifications available in the following notification category: Email Digest for Notifications about Projects I Own. When you subscribe to receive a daily digest for any notifications in this category, you receive a single email notification each day that includes information about each notification option you select in the category.

Prior to this change, only individual email notifications were available to receive.

Email Digest for Notifications about Projects I Own is one of 9 categories of email notifications you can subscribe to. The remaining 8 categories will be updated with daily digest capabilities in the future.

When you export a chart report to PDF, the exported file now includes the following additional information:

A titleThe title in the exported PDF is the name of the report.Prior to this change, a title was not included in the exported PDF.

A unique file nameThe file name of the exported PDF is the name of the report.Prior to this change, a generic file name was used for all exported chart reports.

A footer with the date and time the report was exported and the page numberPrior to this change, this information was not available in the exported PDF.

For more information about chart reports and exporting them, see "Chart Reports."

PrS: Oct 19

EA: Oct 26

GA: Dec 14

Breadcrumb Option to Return to the Dashboard after Clicking a Report

After clicking a report from a dashboard or a custom tab, there is now a breadcrumb navigation link on the report that allows you to easily navigate back to the dashboard or custom tab.

PrS: Oct 19

EA: Oct 26

GA: Dec 14

Updated Look and Feel in the Dashboard List View

Now when viewing a dashboard list, the look and feel is more modern and scalable.

PrS: Oct 19

EA: Oct 26

GA: Dec 14

Manage User Allocations with Resource Contouring

Now when scheduling resources with the new resource scheduling tools, you can determine how the planned hours for a task or issue are allocated to users. You can divide hours across days in the task duration and among assigned users.

The calendar in the My Work area has been updated with the following changes:

Updated look and feel

Expand tasks or issues to view more details directly from the My Work page.Prior to this change, you had to navigate to the details page of the task or issue to view more details.

A 14-day period (including weekends) is displayed on the calendar.Prior to this change, only a five-day period was displayed, and weekends were excluded.

Task and issue duration is visually represented on the calendar (tasks and issues span the number of days equal to the duration).Prior to this change, tasks and issues were displayed on the start date and did not visually span multiple days on the calendar.

The project where the task or issue resides is visually represented by color. Each project is assigned a color; any tasks from a single project are displayed in the same color.

Time off is represented on the calendar with a gray indicator.Prior to this change, time off was not represented on the calendar.[! How this appears might change, so I'm leaving this a little vague. Hopefully this will change so the date at the top is dimmed.]

Completed tasks are removed from the calendarPrior to this change, tasks were dimmed.

Any tasks or issues assigned to you that are not yet complete are displayed on the calendar. (This does not include work assigned to a team you are a member of.)Prior to this change, tasks were displayed on your calendar when they were assigned to you and only after you had specified a commit date.

Adjust the dates displayed on the calendar by dragging to the desired date.Prior to this change, you had to use the forward and back arrows to adjust the visible dates.

In addition to viewing tasks on the projects you are responsible for, you can use the scheduling timeline to make changes to resourcing assignments. For information about how to manage user assignments on the scheduling timeline, see "Managing User Assignments."

NOTE This functionality was previously available in the Preview environment, but has since been removed. It will be re-introduced to Preview early in 2017 with some key functionality changes.

Now creating an approval process is more straightforward, as follows:

Multiple approval processes can be associated with a single object.Prior to this change, only a single approval processes could be associated with an object.

Approval paths have been replaced with multiple approval processes.Rather than creating one, complex approval process with multiple approval paths, you now create multiple approval processes and associate them with the same object.If you have approval processes with multiple paths, the single process will be divided into multiple processes.

Beginning in early 2017, we are changing our release cadence. Rather than making functionality generally available in production each month, Workfront will have 3 major releases a year. However, to give you earlier insight into what will be delivered in each release, we will continue to release to the Preview environment regularly.

The December 2016 Release Webinar will be presented by the Workfront Release Readiness team on December 7, 2016 at 9:00AM, MT. This webinar is designed to help you better understand and fully benefit from the new features releasing in December 2016.

The Preview Sandbox (PrS) is available to all system administrators and any other users as defined by the system administrator. (For more information about the Preview Sandbox, see "Preview Sandbox Testing Environment.") This is the first opportunity that users in your organization have to review a feature before it is made available to Early Access environments and then made generally available.

Early Access

The Early Access (EA) environment is available to all system administrators and any other users as defined by the system administrator. (For information about how to configure Early Access settings, see "Configuring System Preferences.") Most features made available in Early Access were previously available in the Preview Sandbox.

* Indicates a lengthened EA release cycle in order to provide you with more time to become familiar with the feature.

General Availability

General Availability (GA) is when features are available to all Workfront users. Neither system administrators nor users can opt out of features in General Availability. Most features made generally available were previously available in the Preview Sandbox and Early Access environments.

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